The response in Italy to the 90-minute documentary, Nicholas Effect, on RAI, the Italian national broadcasting system, about how Nicholas’ organs came to be donated and how that transformed Italy’s attitude, has been enormous in both the media and among the public.
Aldo Grasso, Italy’s unchallenged leader of television critics, writing in Corriere della Sera, said the Greens’ decision “cleared the taboo of organ donation in our country.” After 31 years, he added, the story “still sends shivers down the spine.”
Effetto Nicholas, as it is called in Italian, was made by one of Italy’s foremost independent producers, Endemol, and can be seen in Italy on RAIPlay.
Reg Green
The Nicholas Effect 